Opportunities
Production Manager - Industrial - Manufacturing of Lifting & Handling Components
UK - West Midlands
£40-50k Basic + Bens
Ref: se04022
The Role
- Ensuring planning production schedules are accurate and up to date, and meeting on time delivery targets
- assessing and managing resource requirements
- Ensure all teams are taking action to reduce defects, whilst working within Conveyor Unit’s problem-solving framework
- Ensuring the business is operating in an organised and safe working environment
- Setting and reviewing each team’s metrics
- Overseeing preventative maintenance for all equipment
- Determining quality control standards
- Overseeing production processes and ensuring teams are working to the best current methods
- Re-negotiating timescales or schedules as necessary
- Ensuring the repair and routine maintenance of production equipment
- liaising with buyers, planning, contracts and other departments
- Supervising the work of junior staff
- Organising relevant training sessions
- Strive to reduce expenses and increase productivity across all product lines
- Help establish workflow policies that enhance speed and efficiency without compromising product safety or integrity
- Work to leader standard work and ensure Supervisors and Team leaders are following theirs
- Coach team leaders and supervisors in lean and continuous improvement principles
- Attend daily management stand up meetings
- Coach problem solving and improvement actions and ensure each team are identifying problems and eliminating root causes
- Perform 1 to 1 reviews with all direct line reports
- Review Production KPIs on a daily and weekly basis
- Conduct daily process walks to help coach and identify improvement opportunities
- Oversee production and output to plan across the production facility
- Ensure that all teams are implementing core lean tools (5S, TPM, Problem Solving, Flow, Kanban)
- Action daily escalations and ensure tasks are completed on time
The Candidate
- 3 years’ experience in a leadership position.
- Awareness and open-ness to Lean thinking.
- Strong people management skills in order to lead, develop and influence others
- Good problem-solving experience
- Experience leading in a no blame culture – focusing on the process.
- Ability to hit the ground running and work within Conveyor Units Lean System
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